Travel Blogs from Bauska

... next few hours we had a mixture of short stormy downpours and warm summery wind to dry us off again. We crossed the border into Latvia in a little town along a road not marked on our maps as exisiting. All that was left of the border was a small sign - ...

... until we got on with our Riga tickets and asked him. He was fine about it so we crossed the border into Latvia at 1522 and were in Bauska hotel hunting about 1/2 hour later. Found an ok hotel, more than our last place at 15Euro each per night ...

... in the 18th century. The architect Rastrelli was impressed by Versailles and copied it here. He also designed the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. Rundäle was my last stop in Latvia before crossing the border (no control as also in Schengen) to ...